klogd Kernel Logger vulnerability and fix

A string format / buffer overflow bug has been discovered in klogd, the kernel logging daemon. Please upgrade to the new sysklogd 1.4 package available on the Slackware FTP site. ========================================================================= sysklogd 1.4 AVAILABLE - a1/sysklogd.tgz...

Updated Lynx package for Slackware 7.0 & -current

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[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-5.15.208/kernel-generic-5.15.208-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.18.49-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fix outgoing zone transfers' quota issue. Limit resolver...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-140.10.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-128.9.2esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-14slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: By providing a modified bitmap, a heap-bas...

[slackware-security] emacs

New emacs packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/emacs-29.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Emacs 29.4 is an emergency bugfix release intended to fix a security vulnerability: Arbitrar...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-102.7.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.11.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.8.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.1-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.7.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.2.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes several critical bugs, including some with security implication...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.1.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.6.19-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-31.5.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-24.7.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-24.5.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.22-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

mozilla-thunderbird x86_64 packages

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware64 13.37 and 14.0. These were accidentally omitted from the last upload. Here are the details from the Slackware64 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.6-x8664-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Here's the package that was...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-16.0.1-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.9.1P4-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where a certain...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.3.14-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a weakness in the DES implementation of...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, and 13.1 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.0.14-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-4.0.1-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

[slackware-security] shadow

New shadow packages are available for Slackware 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-2slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Corrected a packaging error where incorrect permissions on /usr/sbin/lastlog and...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.0.6-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes some more security vulnerabilities. For more...

SSA-2010-0306193619

A new mozilla-firefox package is available for Slackware 12.2 to fix security issues. The package may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html Here are the...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. The Firefox 3.0.15 package may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

bind 10.2/11.0 recompile

Updated bind packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to address a load problem. It was reported that the initial build of these updates complained that the Linux capability module was not present and would refuse to load. It was determined that the packages which were compiled on 10.2...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the Slackwar...

[slackware-security] firefox, seamonkey

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. New seamonkey updates are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and -current to address similar issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] pidgin

A new pidgin package is available for Slackware 12.0 to fix a minor fix security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=23 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.2.1-i486-1slack12.0.tgz: Upgraded to...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website: http://www.php.net Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-4.4.4-i486-1slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to...

imapd

New imapd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix an alleged security issue. See the details below for more information. Also, new Pine packages are provided since these are built together... why not? Might as well upgrade that too, while I'm fixi...

zlib

New zlib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix an additional crash issue. zlib 1.1.x is not affected. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/zlib-1.2.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to zlib-1.2.3. This fixes an additional crash not fixed by...

ncftp

New ncftp packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found on the NcFTP site: http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/changelog.html3.1.5 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog:...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs. See the Mozilla site for a complete list of the issues patched: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlMozilla Also updated is Firefox in Slackware...

Python SimpleXMLRPCServer module

New Python packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue in the SimpleXMLRPCServer library module. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/python-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to python-2.4.1. From the python.org...

PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found in the PHP ChangeLogs on the PHP web site: http://php.net Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog:...

PHP local security issue

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. These fix a problem in previous Slackware php packages where linking PHP against a static library in an insecure path under /tmp could allow a local attacker to place shared libraries at this locatio...

sysklogd update

New sysklogd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue where a user could cause syslogd to crash. Thanks to Steve Grubb who researched the issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Sun May 2 17:16:41 PDT 2004...

OpenSSH updated again

Upgraded OpenSSH 3.7.1p1 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and -current. These fix additional buffer management errors that were not corrected in the recent 3.7p1 release. The possibility exists that these errors could allow a remote exploit, so we recommend all sites running OpenSSH...

Samba buffer overflow fixed

The samba packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running samba should upgrade. Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: Sat Mar 15 13:49:04 PST 2003 patches/packages/samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Samba 2.2.8. From the Samb...

sudo upgrade fixes a potential vulnerability

New sudo packages are available to fix a security problem which may allow users to become root, or to execute arbitrary code as root. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Thu Apr 25 12:00:50 PDT 2002 patches/packages/sudo.tgz: Upgraded to sudo-1.6....

Security updates: at, sudo, xchat

New packages are now available to address security issues with the at scheduler program found in Slackware 8.0's bin.tgz package, sudo, and xchat. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: Mon Jan 21 13:21:07 PST 2002 patches/packages/at.tgz: Fixed a buffer overflow. Security fix...

mutt remote exploit patched

An exploitable overflow has been found in the address handling code of the mutt mail client version 1.2.5i supplied with Slackware 8.0. A new mutt-1.2.5.1 has been released which addresses this problem, and packages are now available for Slackware 8.0 and -current. We urge all Slackware users to...

buffer overflow in sudo fixed

Sudo 1.6.3p6 is now available for Slackware 7.1 and Slackware -current. This release fixes a known buffer overflow, which could be used by malicious users to compromise parts of the system. If you rely on Sudo and use one of the above versions of Slackware, it is recommended that you upgrade to t...